Collar button



c. A. HARMS COLLAR BUTTON Filed Nov. 5, 1925 Charles Ajjarms 1 Patented Oct. 5,

CHARLES A. HARMS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

\ COLLAR BUTTON.

Application filed November 5, 1925. serial No. 67,142.

My said invention relates to a collar button which may be used after the manner of an ordinary collar button but may also be used conveniently for holding together the neckband of a shirt, for example, which has shrunk so that the buttonholes no longer register as is necessary for the application of the ordinary button.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure 1 is a View illustrating the use of my device on the neckband of a shirt,

7 Figure 2, a perspective of the device,

Figure 3, a section illustrating the use of the device as an ordinary collar button, and

Figure 1-, a similar view illustrating the use as in Figure 1.

In the drawings reference character 10 indicates the neckband of a shirt having buttonholes as usual. As illustrated in this figure and in Figure 4: the shank 11 of the button of my invention is positioned in the outer buttonhole, the head 12 being visible at the outside of the neckband. The base 13 of the button is eccentric or offset with ref erence to the shank and the part most remote from the shank is fashioned into a hook 1 1, which in Figures 1 and 4 is shown as engaging the buttonhole in the inner part of the neckband.

Figure 3 illustrates the use of the device of my invention as an ordinary collar button. This is possible where the neckband is of a suflicient size to permit the ends to overlap so far as to bring the button holes into register. The shank now extends through both ends of the neokband, the head 12 being at the front of the neckband and the base 13 at the rear thereof.

From the foregoing it will be evident that my device can be used not only as an ordinary collar button but also on a neckband which is too short as shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

In such a case the head may be thrust through the buttonhole at 15 and the hook" may be inserted in the buttonhole at 16 or 1f i desired the hook can be inserted through both of the overlapping portions of the neck- 750 band from the front by turning it while holding it in position to cause the hook to screw into place through one buttonhole and then through the other. This possibility of locating the button is in some instances a matter of decided convenience.

It will be obvious to, those skilled in the art that various changes may be made in my device without departing from the spirit of the invention and therefore I do not limit vention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A collar button comprising a base, a shank on said base, an extension atone side of the base having its extremity turned inwardly toward the shank and forming a hook adapted to be inserted in a buttonhole and the button rotated to force said base through the buttonhole said hook and shank being adapted to engage two buttonholes and hold j them in spaced relation the buttonhole engaged by the hook being ofiset from said shank, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof, I have hereuntoset my hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana this 2nd day of November, A. D. nineteen hundred and twenty-five;

CHARLES A. HARMS. [L.S.] I 

